Seminars & Colloquiums

Organized by the Faculty of Graduate Studies in collaboration with the Staff Development Centre, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka held on August 31, 2016 at the Council Chamber.

Resource Person: Emeritus Professor Dr. Malcolm Cooper PhD LLM

Emeritus Professor Dr. Malcolm Cooper teaches tourism management and environmental law at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Beppu, Japan, and is Visiting Professor at Sabaragamuwa University, Sri Lanka. Formerly Vice President for International Relations and Research at APU, he is a specialist in tourism resource management, water resource management, and environmental law, and has published widely in these fields. He has taught at Universities in Australia, UK, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, and Japan. His parallel career has been in the city planning and tourism policy areas for Federal, State and Local Governments in Australia and New Zealand. At other times he has been a private planning consultant and a tourism education consultant to the Governments of Dubai, Sri Lanka, China and Vietnam. He is a recipient of the Australian Centennial Medal and has published over 100 books and papers.